Build bikes · build skills · build futures
Every bike built in our workshops funds skills programmes — in schools before exclusion, and in prisons after.
Taps into 'the IKEA effect' — that extra bit of affection people reserve for objects they put together themselves.
Financial Times, 2025
build by yourself or as part of an educational programme
Kits and workshops for complete beginners
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An OCN Level 2 course — people inside build a bike for their child.
see the prison programme →
Real engineering in your classroom.
see the schools programme →Grown, not manufactured — it earns its place four ways.
BBC training & customer records
A file, a saw, some sandpaper — everything else comes in the kit.
Most builders have never made anything before. We guide every step.
Built at kitchen tables in 45 countries, by people of all ages.
Light, strong and it soaks up the road. These bikes get ridden hard.
contents — tubes · lugs · jig · blueprint · video course
All frame kits →An example of a complete build
Julian’s full gravel build, start to finish — filmed by builder Julian Goulding
Your team spends a day cutting, shaping and binding raw bamboo into frames that actually ride
newsOur six-week bamboo bike-building course is now live at HMP Lindholme, Doncaster — hand tools, an OCN London Level 2 course, and a first cohort already pitching their own business ideas.
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newsAn impact case study from our Project Zero workshop in Waltham Forest: 27 young people built bamboo bikes, rated the day 9–10/10, and grew in confidence — featuring Kyron, Mikiyas, Kenny and Najib, in their own words.
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newsThe national prison newspaper on our frame-building workshop at HMP Lowdham Grange — 'a bamboozling way to build bikes'.
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one craft. one engine for change.
* build the change you want to see — frames cut from grass, built by your own hands, funding accredited skills in schools and prisons.
